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with millions of others in the 2017 equifax hack. odds are more people will face similar problems. in its 2019 end of year data breach report, the identity theft resource center says the number of data breaches went up 17%. the group says one significant new threat that emerged, consumers or companies' data being exposed through databases being left unsecured. they say a number of large organizations simply failed to add a pass word to protect their cloud-based data. it's not known if that data was stolen. another trend that's exploded in the past year something they say is credential stuffing. where someone buys stolen log-in and pass word from the dark web and that combo gets them into other online accounts. the center's jayme lee. >> the reason it's so easy is because many of us use the same pass word for multiple accounts. >> reporter: the report says note worthy credential stuffing
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attacks in 2019 included intuit, boost mobile, dunkin', and a streaming service disney plus. singh says the experience was a good learning lesson despite having to fight the identity thieves for more than a year. >> i try to stay happy. i try to find the good in everything because you can't change what happens, but you can change how you react to it. >> >> reporter: singh says his credit card company finally reimbursed him for the $4,500 in fraudulent charges, but he still had to go through the process of contacting his banks and putting a freeze on his credit. and speaking of freeze, roxana saberi took a trip to antarctica to see how climate change is affecting the coolest place on earth. >> reporter: antarctica shines with natural beauty. on our trip there scientists working with environmental activists from greenpeace said this beauty is fragile and it's at risk of fading fast. >> change is difficult here. what we are seeing is rapid
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change. >> reporter: alex boriwitz counts penguins by counting them one by one. we joined his team from stone i bro cliff. they don't seem bothered by us. their natural predators come from the air and sea. scientists say with temperatures rising faster here than most of the rest of the world, manmade climate change is a threat to their survival. these researchers found the island's population of chin strapped penguins named for the black line beneath their beaks has plummeted more than 60% since the last big sur va 50 years ago. chin strap numbers have dropped across the region as temperatures have soared by more than 5 degrees over five decades. >> when you see climate change impacting things down here, glacial melt, warming oceans, penguins do really interact with all of those things. >> reporter: one theory is that
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shrinking ice is also shrinking the chin strap's supply of food. shrimp like creatures called krill. but there are fewer krill to go around because there are now more whales that feed on them. that's a bit of good news for biologist kiir stefanowski thompson. >> we've seen hump back whales which is exciting. this population is one of the populations that's been increasing in recent years thanks to no whaling in this area. >> reporter: but thompson is also studying a new threat, one that's little understood. a form of pollution called micro fibers. they're pieces of plastic coming from synthetic fabrics we wash. so small you can't see them with the nhk world eye. thompson and greenpeace are testing the sea water for micro fibers at the same sites they did two years ago. back then they found tiny plastic particles in almost all of the samples. do you know what the effects are? >> we know that they're found in the guts of fish and we know
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that they're in some cases that micro fibers, micro plastics can accumulate up the food chain. >> reporter: all the way up to us human beings? >> possibly. >> reporter: just one reason greenpeace says we need to protect places like this. the activists are pushing for a u.n. treaty they say could lead to the creation of sanctuaries protecting 30% of the world's oceans by 2030. >> pressure on the oceans is very, very high, and we need to turn that around because in the end the oceans are our best allies against climate change and we need healthy oceans for the future. >> reporter: this pressure they say is manmade. it's up to us to do something it's up to us to do something before it's t where these sun-soaked litea leavesactory. are picked at the peak of freshness. for a naturally smooth taste. and drinking lipton every day can help support a healthy heart! what's going on? oh, darn!
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the impeachment trial of president trump has focused attention on our nation's founding fathers and the genius that led to the creation of the united states. many of the founders weren't just brilliant thinkers, statesmen and politicians. this morning brook silva braga looks at the architect of thomas jefferson. >> reporter: thomas jefferson was many things, a politician, diplomat, naturalist and scientist. it's his work as an architect that's getting special attention at the moment because it illustrates both the brilliance of his vision and what to many is an unforgivable blind spot. just the title of the show will
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surprise some of us. thomas jefferson architect. >> yes. >> reporter: i'm not shuri even knew that or forgot it. >> he was an architect, not a professional, but one of the most architectural thinkers of his time. >> reporter: he says jefferson's influence -- this is the virginia capital? >> yes. >> reporter: -- is how familiar his designs now look. this looks almost like a cliche of a government building now. >> it wasn't then. jefferson was saying we want to do what the ancient romans and what the ancient greeks did. they had the highest form of government, and the legislators acted with wisdom. and the architecture should convey that. >> reporter: jefferson's plantation home, monta cello, carried those principles. >> this was the drawing na jefferson submitted. >> reporter: so did his anonymous smith to a design competition for the white house. >> this dome was to have glass windows. it was the most innovative. it was the most advanced. >> reporter: even today, this looks almost futuristic.
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>> yes. i'm not sure it could actually have been built. >> reporter: that may be why it looks like something i haven't seen. these models first appeared in an italian retrospective on jefferson's architecture. neil saw that show and wanted to bring it home to virginia, but realized that was a complicated idea. would it be going too far to say you thought that exhibition wouldn't be well received here? >> it wouldn't be enough. and if i had presented that exhibition, i would have rightly been criticized. >> reporter: jefferson's designs, after all, were made into buildings by slaves. yes, as a politician he helped end the atlantic slave trade, but at mondticello and elsewher, jefferson owned 600 human beings including his mistress sally hemmings. do we know who made this? >> some we do, some we don't. >> reporter: he made a new exhibit. >> very fine work of art. >> reporter: highlighting anonymous people who built this
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door. >> they've been able to analyze the grain and the grooves and the details of the door and connect that to a set of tools that are known to have been john hemmings. >> reporter: john hemmings was sally hemmings' brother. we don't know who the fingerprints in this brick belong to, but here it is under glass next to a handful of handmade nails, and a tribute to isaac granger, one of the men who made jefferson's nails. >> he's wearing his workman's apron and his shirt. he's showing you his hands which are signs of his creativity. >> reporter: love it or hate it, the exhibit is a profoundly different way to present jefferson. >> i could see people saying, this is an american hero, why are you trying to bring him down. i could see people saying, this is a slave holder. why are you still building him up. >> i've gotten a couple letters. how could you do this to thomas jefferson? why would you tarnish the image of this great man? i've had other people say, really, we want to give praise to this man who really had a
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concubine who had a slave mistress? >> reporter: the reason jefferson the architect will continue this spring at the university of virginia, a campus he designed, when uva dedicates this memorial to enslaved laborers. >> the enslaved worked below in kitchens that wra poorly lit, poorly ventilated. >> reporter: mabl wilson worked on both the uva memorial and chrysler building. she studies architecture and race. one of jefferson's hallmarks was finding ways to hide the places where slaves lived and worked. >> i think this is what makes him an architect. that he understands that the buildings make relationships between people. so he is very shrewd at using architecture something invisible that he completely understood was morally reprehensible and against the values of freedom and equality. >> reporter: this is all part of a larger reckoning in virginia. >> for so long we've only told one side of the story. >> reporter: janice underwood is
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virginia's first ever director of diversity equity and inclusion hired by governor ralph northam after a racist photo was found on northam's year book page. virginia's second governor was thomas jefferson, who designed the capital building where underwood now works. >> he said that all men are created equal. and while i know that to be true, he would not have included me in that. he would not have included sally hemmings in that or any of thinks children with sally hemmings. >> reporter: underwood said she isn't shaure if the statue of jefferson behind the capital should seen stay up. >> i don't know. we're reckoning with those questions now. >> reporter: in its way, the chrysler museum is attempting answers to the questions of jefferson by teaching new names and attaching new meaning to old ones. do you want them to come away with the idea that thomas jefferson was a great american or maybe just an important american? >> i would say he's a great american. i would say the idea that we have a president who has ideals,
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that we still aspire to, is really something i want people to take away with
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when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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kobe bryant's legend was born on the basketball courts outside philadelphia. he went from lower merian high school in pennsylvania straight to the nba. years later he helped pay for a new gym at the school and it bears his name. jericka dunkin' goes to the school that bears his name. >> kobe was us and we were him. and i think that's a really beautiful way of putting it. >> reporter: at lower merian high school, student athletes both past and present tried to make sense of this loss. >> we played basketball on the same team from my sophomore year to when i graduated.
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and remained friends ever since then. >> reporter: in the mid '90s, lower merian served as his launching pad for both his nba career and his ability to inspire. >> i want to stay focused on that, win a state championship. when season rolls around, more focused than ever. >> reporter: when you first heard the news, what was your reaction? >> when i first heard it, i didn't believe it. >> reporter: guy stewart played basketball with bryant three high school seasons and considered the two to be brothers. >> him and gianna, they were just -- >> got away. going, going, see ya. >> reporter: during his four years at lower merian, he led the boys basketball team to the first state championship and more than a half a century. >> we pass his trophy case every day and we never expected it would happen this soon. there's loss for words for everybody. >> he had so much more to live
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for. and more more to build. >> rte jeremycovere bant as rep. and later becoming one of bryant's assistant coaches. >> he was doing things i've never heard o like getting a key from a janitor and coming into the school at 4:00 in the morning, 5:00 in the morning taking 500 shots. zmoor as a high school sturnt? >> as a high school student. >> bryant on the move with the jumper. >> i don't know anybody more successful in their field than i've ever been personally than kobe bryant. >> reporter: do you feel lucky to have known him? >> i do. i do. he inspired me. >> reporter: and we got a chance to speak to some of those players who knew him best after that news conference. and i asked each of them, what do you think kobe bryant is saying right now? and one gentleman's response stuck out to me. he said he believes kobe bryant is saying, keep going. don't stop. there's still more work to be done. >> great advice from a legend. jericka dunkin' reporting.
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that's the it's wednesday, january 29th, 2020.dnesday, january this is the "cbs morning news" breaking overnight coronavirus crisis. a plane packed with americans evacuate from the chinese at the center of the outbreak landed in the u.s. late last night. the efforts under way to top the spread. losing the fight over new testimony in the impeachment trial. republican leaders say they do not have enough votes to block fresh witnesses. and new video kobe bryant's doomed helicopter before the crash. this as more tributes to the sports legend pour in we hear sports legend pour in we hear from shaquille o'neal. captioning funded by cbs

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